FROM PRISON TO PODIUM

Posted on February 17, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Community and tagged achievement, Community, conference, creative writing, criminology, david breakspear, education, event, experience, expression, featured, growth, HMP Norwich, norfolk, norwich, personal, prison, progress, reform, speaker, UEA, War of Words, writing.

by David Breakspear

Saturday the 10th Feb 2018, a day that I will always remember. I had been invited to speak in relation to prison education and the arts. I was speaking to an audience alongside Jacob Huntley, a lecturer in English literature and creative writing from the UEA. I met Jacob whilst I was a serving prisoner at HMP Norwich. One of my roles at HMP Norwich was as an education mentor and I was told that there would be a new creative writing course starting, which would be facilitated by Jacob. I have always found that penning emotions onto a piece of paper allowed me to free my mind.Continue Reading

YOUNG VOTERS – DAMNED IF WE DO AND DAMNED IF WE DON’T

Posted on June 20, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Student and tagged anti-intellectualism, Brexit, Brexit negotiations, class, class divides, conservatives, cost of living, demographics, DUP, EU referendum, experience, GE17, generation gap, government, grades, graduates, housing benefit, hung parliament, hypocrisy, jeremy corbyn, Labour, lecturers, liberal ideals, Michael Gove, minimum wage, political economics, polls, property ladder, rent, snap election, student debt, student votes, students, Thatcherite, theresa may, turnout, young people, young voters.

by Alex Powell

Seeing the reaction to the snap general election result has been fascinating. For years, young people, particularly students, were criticised for not going out and voting. June 8th 2017 was the day we did. The result? A hung parliament that defied all expectations. In the lead up to the election, all the indications suggested that the Tories would win a landslide, even if the gap had begun to close in the final polls. In the end, this was far from how things played out, leaving Theresa May without a majority and forced to rely on the DUP to pass her key votes.

#MILLENNIALPROBS

Posted on March 19, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged artist, Asia Patel, dead end, experience, hire, hiring, internship, job, millennial, nb artist, new, non-binary, original art, original design, vicious cycle, work, young.

by Asia Patel

REVIEW – CARMEN GASTROFLAMENCO

Posted on December 21, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged 65daysofstatic, Andalucía, Antonio Contíñez, arts, baile, carmen gastroflamenco, classical music, cordoba, cultures, dance, emotion, experience, feeling, flamenco, Garcia Lorca, guitar, instrumental, Keko, La Chiqui, live show, loss, love, Mike Marqusee, Miriam, music, passion, political, Rafael del Pino, review, show, spain.

by Carmina Masoliver

I’m not usually one for instrumental music, or music where I don’t understand the lyrics. Perhaps as a writer, I cling onto the words to evoke feeling. Perhaps this is also the reason why writing about music proved to be truly ineffable on a ‘Words and Music’ module I took at UEA, leaving me with a respectively low grade. I have been to operas and seen classical orchestras, willing myself not to be bored, trying not to fall asleep.

Often, I pretend to myself that I enjoy these things, or that at least it was “an experience”. I don’t like to reject a whole genre of music, so that is not my point here. I wouldn’t desecrate classical music as a whole, yet believe that we all have particular music tastes. For example, instrumental band 65daysofstatic are able to provoke emotions and excitement without the need for words, to me. Similarly, I was recently able to enjoy a performance of flamenco in Córdoba, and it happened both while instrumental, and without understanding the lyrics.Continue Reading

MY MENTAL HEALTH AND POKEMON GO

Posted on August 8, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Perspectives and tagged #catchemall, 90s, anxiety, application, ASD, autism, cartoon, challenge, depression, disability, exercise, experience, family, games, gaming, happiness, health, holiday, Italy, mental health, nerd, news, niantic, outdoors, personal, pikachu, Pokémon, pokemon go, PokemonGO, reward, Satoshi Tajiru, social skills, socialise, story, travel, university.

by Daniel Delargy

CW: depression

Since graduating from UEA, things kind of went downhill for me. I graduated with the grade I wanted, but I was stuck as to what to do next. I had no job, no sense of personal accomplishment, deteriorating relationships, and to top it all off I moved back in with my parents and felt ashamed because as the eldest child, I had this expectation that I had to be this success story which my siblings could look up to.

My old habits started returning. I tried to get back into an old hobby of mine, running – but quickly dismissed it. I hid myself away.Continue Reading

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FROM PRISON TO PODIUM

YOUNG VOTERS – DAMNED IF WE DO AND DAMNED IF WE DON’T

#MILLENNIALPROBS

REVIEW – CARMEN GASTROFLAMENCO

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